This is a book of the songs Joan Baez sings on her Vanguard recordings and at her concerts. Here are sixty-six of the most haunting and beautiful folk songs and songs in the folk vein. Many of these songs have never before appeared in print. Others have never before appeared in the version published here. The texts are full. The vocal lines and arrangements for piano and guitar have been kept as close as is possible to the way Joan Baez performs them. They have an aptness and basic simplicity which brings them within everyone's reach.

A beginner's manual to the classical guitar. Uses a systematic approach using the interesting solo and duet music written by Noad, one of the world's foremost guitar educators. No musical knowledge is necessary. Student can progress by simple stages. Many of the exercises are designed for a teacher to play with the students. Will increase student's enthusiasm, therefore increasing the desire to take lessons.

A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books and CDs in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow • Delia • Frankie and Johnny • The Girl I Left Behind Me • House of the Rising Sun • Ida Red • In the Pines • Little Sadie • Man of Constant Sorrow • Sally Goodin • Scarborough Fair • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • and many more.

Note to the reader
Note to the teacher
About the guitar
How guitar music is written
Notes and rests
Tuning
Special tuning tips
Beginning to play
The sitting position
The right hand
The rest stroke
Tone quality
The shape of the nails
Finger identification
First practice of the rest stroke alternation
The left hand
The left-hand exercise
Putting both hands together
Further development
The free stroke
Notes on the first string
Counting
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Notes on the second string
Rest and damping
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Pick-up notes
Bank of the Ohio
Notes on the third string
Counting eighth notes
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Aura Lee
Thumb technique
Notes on the fourth string
Exercise 11
Exercise 12
Exercise 13
Notes on the fifth and sixth strings
Exercise 14
Fandango
Exercise 15
Ties
Exercise 16
Sharps and flats
Exercise 17
Exercise 18
Minuet
Chord technique
Exercise 19
Exercise 20
Cherry Song
Exercise 21
Arpeggios and Triplets
Technique of arpeggio
The Upward arpeggio
The downward arpeggio
Exercise 22
Exercise 23
Exercise 24
Combining chords and melody
Exercise 25
Exercise 26
La Volta
Practice suggestions
The Moorish dance
Evening Breeze
Etude
Minuet Theme
Flamenco Study
Song at nightfall
To the reader
A note to the teacher
Keys and scales
Scale of C Major
Other Major Keys
Scale of G Major
Minor Keys
Exercise 1
Study in G Major
Counting sixteenth notes
Exercise 2
Mixed Eighths and Sixteenths
Exercise 3
Etude in A Minor
Right hand fingering
General Principles
A Warning
Two Note Chords
Exercise 4
Crossing From String to String
Use of the Ring Finger
Exercise 5
Exercise 6 to 10
The Dotted Quarter Note
Exercise 11
Exercise 12
Packington's Pound
Right-Hand Technique
Choice of the Rest Stroke or Free Stroke
Single-Note Passages
Chords
Two-Note Chords with Rest Stroke
Exercise 13
Exercise 14
Chords of Three or More Notes
Arpeggios
To the reader
To the teacher
A practical warm-up routine
More advanced counting
The dotted eighth note
Grace notes
Andante
Syncopation
Exercise 1
The half bar
Andantino
More about chords
Exercise 2
Arpeggiated chords
When to arpeggiate
Amusement
Shorthand systems for chords
Components of a Major Chord
The Right Hand
Breaking up the Chords
Formation of More Complex Chords
On top of old smokey
Exploring new keys
Flat keys
Exercise 3
Study in F
Keys with more Sharps
Scale of A Major
Exercise 4
Andante
Alman
Scale of E Major
Exercise 5
Little Rondo

This excellent collection in the Strum It series includes strum and pick patterns and lyrics for 42 traditional favorites, all in their original keys! Includes: The Big Rock Candy Mountain • Camptown Races • Clementine • Danny Boy • Down in the Valley • House of the Rising Sun • John Henry • Midnight Special • My Old Kentucky Home • Rock-A-My Soul • Scarborough Fair • This Train • Worried Man Blues • and more.

While many extant photos of string band artists show members holding a mandolin, it often can barely be heard in most period recordings because the most important instrument to capture was usually the fiddle or voice. This collection provides you with the opportunity to learn over 70 old-time-music period songs recorded mostly by Ernest Stoneman, or the duo Grayson & Whitter, during the 1920s and early 1930s. Many of these songs were also covered by other string bands regardless of whether they had the opportunity or not to be commercially recorded. CD tracks of some of the songs in this collection as recorded by a number of different string band artists are provided so that performances can be compared.

Introduction
Basic Melidic Connections: A Traditional Approach
The Song
A Dark Road is A Hard Road to Travel
A Message from Home Sweet Home
All Go Hungry Hash House [CD TRACKS 1-3]
All I've Got's Gone [CD TRACKS 4-5]
Are You Washed in the Blood? [CD TRACKS 6-7]
Careless Love
Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling
Down on the Banks of the Ohio [CD TRACKS 8-9]
Fallen by the Wayside
Goodbye, Dear Old Stepstone [3/4 time]
Goodbye, Dear Old Stepstone [4/4 time]
Handstome Molly
He Is Coming After Me
He Is Coming to Us Dead
He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me
I Am Resolved
I Have Lost You Darling, True Love
I Know My Name Is There
I Remember Calvary
I Saw a Man at Close of Day
I'll Never Be Yours
It's Sinful to Flirt
I've Always Been a Rambler
John Hardy [CD TRACKS 10-12]
Joke n'Henry
Little Maggie With a Dram Glass in Her Hand
Midnight on the Stormy Deep
Mountaineer's Courtship
My Mind is to Marry
My Mother and My Sweetheart
Never Be as Fast as I Have Been
New River Train
Nobody's darling [CD TRACKS 13-14]
No More Goodbyes
On the Banks of Old Tennessee
Red or Green [The Red and Green Signal Lights]
Remember the Poor Tramp has to Live
Rose Conley
Sally Gooden
Say Darling Say
She's Mine, All Mine
Short Life oc Trouble [CD TRACKS 15-16]
Shout Lula
Sweeping Trought the Gates
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
The Burial of Wild Bill
The Eastbound Train
The Fate of Talmadge Osborne
The Lightning Express
The Nine Pound Hammer [CD TRACK 17-19]
The Nine Pound Hammer II
The Old Hickory Cane
The Old Maid and the Burglar
The Orphan Girl
The Pretty Mohea
The Prisoner's Lament
The Raging Sea, How It Roars
The Railroad Flagman's Sweetheart
The Religious Critic
The Resurrection
The Road to Washington [aka White House Blues] [CD TRACKS 20-21]
The Titanic
The Wreck of the Southern Old 97 [CD TRACKS 22-23]
The Wreck on the C@O
There'll Come A Time
There's A Light Lit Up in Galilee
Too Late
Train No.45
We Parted at the River
What You Gonna Do with the Baby
When the Redeemed are Gathering In
When the Snowflakes Fall Again
Where Are You Going, Alice?
You'll Never Miss Your Mother Until She's Gone
CD Track Aritst Index
Related Music Resoruces
Author's Biography

With its wealth of information on how technique can be tastefully applied, Back-Up Banjo is the definitive book on the subject of Banjo accompaniment. Since a Banjo player in a band plays accompaniment at least 75% of the time, it is extremely important to master playing in this style. Janet Davis offers specific suggestions for accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist in a variety of styles-- and then provides musical examples illustrating her points. Janet breaks her concepts down into their basic components, making them crystal clear in lay terms. The various back-up techniques are separated into categories determined by song tempo, by lead instrument being accompanied, and by the area of the fingerboard in which the chords are being played. In notation and tablature. Includes an extended play audio recording which demonstrates the examples in the book. Access to audio and video downloads available online, which demonstrate the examples in the book.

The Flatpicking Sourcebook is a comprehensive collection that teaches the fundamental techniques involved in this important playing method. Written by Italian virtuoso Beppe Gambetta , this weighty book covers all the essentials along with examples in standard notation, tab and downloadable demonstrations. Flatpicking is a Guitar technique that involves playing with a plectrum, as opposed to the fingers. A master of this technique, and many styles of music, Beppe Gambetta is your guide in this newly-translated edition of his definitive guide to playing in this style. From the fundamentals - left and right hand techniques, plectrum grip - all the way to solo pieces, duets and ensemble arrangements, this is both a fantastic introduction to Flatpicking Guitar, and a useful resource for more experienced players looking for a reference work. Other essential topics in The Flatpicking Sourcebook are warm-ups, strumming, crosspicking, scales, improvisation, open tunings and different arrangements. Not only will Gambetta teach you how to flatpick, you will get important practice with the 75 exercises, licks, solo pieces, and other arrangements, also demonstrating the full extent of this fascinating and rich style. The accompanying download card includes demonstrations of all the material by Beppe Gambetta himself, letting you hear a true master show you how it's done. This thorough and authoritative Flatpicking Sourcebook is a detailed guide to the techniques and fundamentals of an inimitable style passed down through generations of genius musicians.